Etablierte Demokratien westlichen Typs, wie etwa die DemokratieformDeutschlands, zeichnen sich durch handlungsrechtliche Systemstrukturen aus, diegraduell unterschiedlich große Verteilungsspielräume für politischeEntscheidungsträger enthalten. Dieser Sachverhalt steht in engemZusammenhang...

Little is known about the relationship between family firms and their employees. This paper aims to close this gap. We distinguish between family management and family ownership as two dimensions of family firms and analyze their respective influence on downsizing. Our findings show that family...

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profithospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiencyof a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit...